DSTV installation help. Pictures included.

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estmmn2

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Previouis house owners left house and there was satellite dish on roof.
I'm considering getting DSTV standard package.
Now the dish is elSat and 60CM Diameter at least.

First we already have another dish at home that's used and looking at both the alignment seems the same.
(I'd have to see whether the old dish is adjustable, just in case)

Here is the horizon view from the dish...is the vegetation a signal strength concern?
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Is this wrong?
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Also, here are lnb details I recorded:
Elsat universal lnb
ku band
frequency range 10.7 12.75 ghz
lo1 9.75 ghz
lo2 10.7 ghz

Is there something wrong?
Do I need to buy lnb or other stuff?
3 cables come out of satellite , one to earth , one links to external antenna , one cable comes out from roof:
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-Thanks
 
The pictures are tiny. I can't see what they are meant to show. Can you borrow a decoder and card to test the dish? Should work if you just plug in all the cables.
 
Thx.
That LNB looks pretty cruddy (lost its cover?) . Installations don't last forever in our climate.

The dish needs to point to open sky. Sometimes the signal will make it through sparse foliage, or even from a signal bounced off a building.

The cable from the roof looks rather like normal TV cable. Satellite cable would have a sharp bit coming out the end.
 
LNB is finished. The cover disintegrated. Water comes in, it shorts, it blows.

If you look at the horizon on the roof at the dish and point your hands up at an angle of about 25 degrees, it should be okay if it clears the trees.

The connector that you showed is for RF from an antenna or for distribution through the house. Just make sure that it comes from the dish. If it does and RG6 is printed somewhere on the cable, just change that connector to an F-connector.
 
yep looks like alighnment is ok you jest need to replace the lnb.
correct me if i read wrong you have 2 dishes at home?
if thats correct you already have dstv on the one dish, so you want to get another subscription with the older 1?if yes then just get the second subscription as extraview
 
So I must buy an lnb. I'll read more about that I've found that there are installation manuals on internet.

@isie
Yep , except that I don't want it interfering with someone else's dstv.Also the quote I got was for almost R2000 , in which case a standard DSTV installation would be cheaper R1299.
Being me , I even want that to go lower , so I'm looking at self installation because the satellite's in place and my room is about 10 M from the satellite.
What lnb would I need to buy?
 
estmmn2 said:
So I must buy an lnb. I'll read more about that I've found that there are installation manuals on internet.

@isie
Yep , except that I don't want it interfering with someone else's dstv.Also the quote I got was for almost R2000 , in which case a standard DSTV installation would be cheaper R1299.
Being me , I even want that to go lower , so I'm looking at self installation because the satellite's in place and my room is about 10 M from the satellite.
What lnb would I need to buy?
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if you only want standard dstv (not pve etc) then a single LNB is all you need, all you need to do is match up you new lnb exactly the same way the current one is (the angle its placed at) at most a new sinlge LNB is about R130 and you might need to replace the wiring if its very old but thats also very cheap (like R3 a metre) so no mrer then R200 if you diy much better then 2K :)

are you renting or is the rest of the people in the house (those with dstv curenty) your folks? not being inquisitve just trying to figure out why you would rather spend R500 then sharing with them and only pay the extraview cost of r60, it wont intefer with thers as yours will only getting the heart beat from theirs.
 
@isie
Well , i'd be looking for dstv compact not the full.
I looked at the satellite that has dstv , I saw it uses dual LNB , does that mean I would need to buy a quad LNB?
I don't want xtraview because i'll need to fiddle with satellite , and also the cable to come to my room will be quite long +-25M.
 
You don't need quad. Quad is only needed for HD PVR. If you have a lnb already installed then that is good enough.

Disclaimer: There are other situations in which quad is useful, but they are not relevant to this discussion.
 
Try and buy a decent LNB, not the rubbish that comes with an installation. A dual LNB gives you more leeway. For example you could connect a 3rd party decoder in another room or watch in the lounge and then migrate to the bedroom with the smartcard.
 
estmmn2 said:
@isie
Well , i'd be looking for dstv compact not the full.
I looked at the satellite that has dstv , I saw it uses dual LNB , does that mean I would need to buy a quad LNB?
I don't want xtraview because i'll need to fiddle with satellite , and also the cable to come to my room will be quite long +-25M.
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since you are using a seperate dish no you wont need a qud lnb, just a single lnb on each dish, you wont need to mess with the curent decoder , basicaly it will look likke this,
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this will only work if you have both decoders are xtravie cabable as long as you set yours as decoder 2 it wont intfere with the main 1 and yes 25m cable to link the 2 decoders if you want to save on subscription
 
I think I'm onto something.
The decoder my parents have is HD PVR decoder and the lnb on that satellite is Dual LNB.
Does that mean one of the cables on the LNB is not used actually?
 
estmmn2 said:
I think I'm onto something.
The decoder my parents have is HD PVR decoder and the lnb on that satellite is Dual LNB.
Does that mean one of the cables on the LNB is not used actually?
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no the HD uses both cables on the LNB howver check the multiswitch the have its a 2 int 4 dont bother then just do what i said earlier buy a new sngle LNB etc . but if they have a 2 into 6 multiswith all you need is 50m of cable (2x 25m) 1 cable from the multi swith to your decoder and the other cable to link the 2 decoders. also you wont have to fork out anything for subscription either way as they already paying for xtraview all you have to do is tell mc of your extra decoder :)
download this pdf file it might make more sense to you then my ramblings :) http://www.dstv.com/dstvsa/action/media/downloadFile?media_fileid=2198
p.s this is only posible if you curently only have 1 decoder.
 
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So I just need to get an lnb , join cable to it on one side then connect my decoder to it right?
Of course , I'd have to get multichoice setup and the data card as well.
The dish seems good , but will it matter if the bolts are rusted?
 
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